Ticket for Dwight Moody Address, May 31, 1885

A ticket from an event held by the School for Christian Workers, now Springfield College, featuring an address by D.L. Moody on the subject of "Sowing and Reaping." The address was held at the First Congregational Church in Springfield, Massachusetts.According to YMCA historian Howard Hopkins, evangelist Dwight L. Moody is “the greatest religious figure in the first century of the American YMCA.” Moody was affiliated with the Chicago (Ill.) YMCA and pressed it in the direction of evangelism. As president of the association, he secured funding to erect the Chicago YMCA’s first building. Moody was the leading religious figure of his day, a revivalist who reached millions. He said he owed more to the YMCA than to any other organization for equipping him to do religious work. At a YMCA secretaries meeting in 1879, he said, “I would recommend a gymnasium, classes, medical lectures, social receptions, music…we do not want simply evangelistic meetings.” Moody was instrumental in establishing the YMCA’s student volunteer movement and what is now known as World Service